Chapter 210 Guns and Cannons

"How is the preparation of anti-medium unit weapons?"

Chang Heng walked to the officer's side, his eyes swept over Hackett and several spellcasters standing next to him, the ears and tails of these adventurers were visibly drooping.

Chang Heng's eyes twitched, was he that scary?

The officer was not affected at all, looked at the small-caliber artillery behind him that had been loaded and calibrated, and answered immediately.

"Report to the general, six, seven, eight, the small-caliber support artillery of the three nearby platoons has been calibrated and can be fired."

There are not many officers and soldiers with awakened talents. These soldiers are required to learn the Eagle Eye technique to serve as the most critical observer at the platoon level. If the ability of the observer in this platoon has not reached the standard required by the observer, then... the more capable, the more work.

The more capable, the more work is the tradition of the territory.

This officer is like this, because of his proficiency in spells, he serves as an auxiliary observer for three platoons.

This is the first time they have used this kind of small-caliber artillery in actual combat. Before they set off, they were urgently tested from the territory and sent to the sky island.

30mm individual small-caliber support artillery, if you are wild, you can directly call it a heavy musket.

Ten infantry platoons, each infantry platoon carries one for trial, because the garrison does not need this small-caliber artillery to strengthen firepower, all artillery is strengthened to their offensive team.

Two hundred people use ten 30mm small-caliber support artillery and test the killing ability of these support artillery against elemental creatures covered with rock shells.

Early muskets are more difficult to manufacture than artillery.

Artillery can increase the strength of the barrel by thickening the wall thickness, while if the musket considers increasing the strength by increasing the thickness of the barrel... it will need to sacrifice too much performance.

If the material is not qualified and the musket is forced to be equipped, then the explosion is the inevitable result.

It is extremely rare for a long-pole musket like Ji Lin to be able to make a cannon after making up for it.

Most people first develop firearms, then expand and develop artillery, and then manufacture long-pole muskets for long-distance shooting after the materials are improved.

The small-caliber support artillery handed over to the expedition team this time is an enlarged version of the muskets already in the territory, with a slender cast iron barrel. To prevent it from exploding, the tube wall is thickened by one circle, and an extra circle of structural strengthening runes is engraved on it.

In the test firing at the territory test site, this 30mm artillery can stably fire ten projectiles and accurately destroy targets at 300 meters.

The safety problem is solved, but the weight problem cannot be solved.

Seeing the weight of the finished product, Ji Lin was also glad that he only asked for a 30mm caliber. If it was a little bigger, the territory's musket shooters would not be able to carry this thing and move forward quickly.

And the medium-sized artillery of that caliber, which is common in modern times, can only be placed on the sentry tower of the territory as a city defense artillery.

There are no horses or cattle in the territory to pull carts. The rapid flow of resources has increased the demand for livestock to pull goods. For this reason, Ji Lin found Fang Ai to buy 20 pack animals to strengthen the logistics and transportation of the territory.

All the automatic machines/constructs are only on the blueprint, and it is quite difficult for Ji Lin to bring artillery with him.

The steam spider, which is most likely to be used as a transport unit in the army, is still under development - Ji Lin has sent all the floating stones produced by the sky island to the dean, just so that the dean can make the steam spider with the characteristics of the territory one day earlier.

Rare resources can allow the lord to produce products that surpass this era in advance.

A piece of meteorite iron, a piece of high-purity high-quality iron ore, can allow ancient civilizations to easily obtain high-quality ironware that can only be obtained after the development of iron smelting technology. Using natural high-quality oil, flamethrowers and incendiary bombs can also be produced in the Middle Ages.

'30mm small-caliber support artillery/heavy musket, anti-material direct-fire weapon, 350 range, 80 weapon power. Every ten shots, the rune craftsman needs to replenish the energy, otherwise there is a risk of explosion. ’

Chang Heng turned his thoughts back to reality and looked at the elemental life and forest spiders that were curled up in the distance.

“Are you sure it’s their rest time now?”

Chang Heng turned his eyes to the adventurers who were brought to attack together, and controlled his voice to be as gentle as possible.

Hackett, whose name was called, was like a wolf whose tail was stepped on. He tensed his body and looked at the caster beside him.

The other party was stunned for a while, and a female mage with a round face reacted and released the Eagle Eye spell for Hackett to amplify.

Hackett watched the local biological group lying on the ground with purple light spots in the distance for a long time. The forest spiders had all fallen asleep and hugged themselves into a ball; the rock elemental life had no reaction, allowing insects to jump on their backs.

There were also some light dots that were peacefully dotted on the shell of the rock elemental life, motionless. They were the elemental elves that accompanied the rock elemental life.

Hackett gave his answer to Chang Heng.

"I'm sure they've all entered a resting state. This is the best time to launch a sneak attack."

Chang Heng nodded and issued a firing order to the infantry line that had already set up a temporary defensive position on the field.

"All units, pass on my order, fire directly after hearing the cannon fire."

The dull cannon sounded. Compared with the short and fast firing sound of the musket, the sound of these small-caliber artillery was without exception a little heavy and muffled.

The officer re-condensed the spell model of the Eagle Eye technique and observed the killing effect caused by these small-caliber artillery in the distance.

The musketeers had not received professional artillery training. They used these small-caliber direct-fire cannons purely as a large-caliber musket fixed in place.

Ten lead bullets rolled in the air, tearing out a burst of air-breaking sounds, and under the amazing power of the crystal ore explosives, they carried fatal kinetic energy and tore open the shell of the rock element's life.

[Forest Rock Element]

[Fourth Era - Magical Creatures/Monster Infantry]

[Melee Defense/Block]: 60

[Movement Speed]: 10km/h

[Armor Strength]: 120

[Weapon Power (Rock Heavy Punch)]: 150

[Features]:

Forest Rock: Restores HP at 0.1% per minute during combat, and restores HP at a rate of 1% per minute after leaving combat. These big guys can get along well with everything in the forest. The plants rooted in their bodies do not break their bodies, but also enhance their flexibility - some plants living on them will actively attack nearby hostile targets, be careful!

Little elves: Some small elemental elves accompany elemental life, providing a layer of fertile shield for elemental life, and will cast spells to interfere with enemies attacking forest rock elements.

No more inconvenience: After absorbing enough floating stones, these big guys have greatly improved their movement speed, flexibility and attack speed - you don't want to see them running.

[The elemental life living in the energy active area has been infected with some natural breath of the forest because of its long-term residence in the forest, and has become the residence of many plants. They do not actively attack others, but when others attack them, they will not leave. ]

In the first wave of attack, only three of the ten shots hit the forest rock element. The broken lead bullets took away the topmost protective shell of the forest rock element, revealing the second layer of the body formed by the brown-black plant roots solidifying the soil. The seven shots that were shot off were not completely useless. Six of them killed the forest spider lying near the forest rock element.

The three-meter-tall forest rock elements pulled themselves out of the ground as if they had just woken up, twisting their bodies like they had just woken up from a dream to look for the uninvited guests who disturbed their sleep. The surrounding forest spiders also twisted their bodies, confusedly looking for people who dared to disturb their sleep.

Twenty-four forest rock elements, more than three hundred forest spiders.

Hackett looked at the results of their attack and couldn't help but retreat in his heart. Even if they were given ten thousand courages, the adventurers would not dare to provoke this group of forest rock elements. At this point, he can only hope that these people can beat the forest rock elements. If these people can't beat the forest rock elements, they can't escape.

Hackett thought sadly.

"Reload, grenadiers of each unit check again, all artillery free to aim and fire."

Changheng looked at the performance of the artillery, but he was not discouraged. It was not bad for the 30mm small-caliber artillery to grind off a layer of life of these elements, and he did not pursue the effect of one-shot kill.

The 30mm support artillery in the industrial age might be able to kill with one shot, but it was too early for them.

They also have grenadiers who specialize in fighting monster infantry at close range, and their explosive packs are not only loud.

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